> -----原始邮件-----
> 发件人: michael.chris...@oracle.com
> 发送时间: 2021-03-24 00:28:35 (星期三)
> 收件人: "Lv Yunlong" <lyl2...@mail.ustc.edu.cn>, martin.peter...@oracle.com
> 抄送: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org, target-de...@vger.kernel.org,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 主题: Re: [PATCH] target: Fix a double put in transport_free_session
>
> On 3/22/21 9:58 PM, Lv Yunlong wrote:
> > In transport_free_session, se_nacl is got from se_sess
> > with the initial reference. If se_nacl->acl_sess_list is
> > empty, se_nacl->dynamic_stop is set to true. Then the first
> > target_put_nacl(se_nacl) will drop the initial reference
> > and free se_nacl. Later there is a second target_put_nacl()
> > to put se_nacl. It may cause error in race.
> >> My patch sets se_nacl->dynamic_stop to false to avoid the
> > double put.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lv Yunlong <lyl2...@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
> > ---
> > drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> > b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> > index 5ecb9f18a53d..c266defe694f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> > +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
> > @@ -584,8 +584,10 @@ void transport_free_session(struct se_session *se_sess)
> > }
> > mutex_unlock(&se_tpg->acl_node_mutex);
> >
> > - if (se_nacl->dynamic_stop)
> > + if (se_nacl->dynamic_stop) {
> > target_put_nacl(se_nacl);
> > + se_nacl->dynamic_stop = false;
> > + }
> >
> > target_put_nacl(se_nacl);
> Could you describe the race a little more?
>
> Is the race:
>
> 1. thread1 called core_tpg_check_initiator_node_acl and found the acl.
> sess->se_node_acl is set to the found acl.
> 2. thread2 is running transport_free_session. It now grabs the acl_node_mutex
> and sees se_nacl->acl_sess_list is empty.
> 3. thread2 does the dynamic_stop=true operations in transport_free_session.
> 4. thread1 now calls transport_register_session now adds the sess to acl's
> acl_sess_list.
>
> Later when the session that thread 1 created is deleted dynamic_stop is still
> set, so we do an extra target_put_nacl?
>
> I'm not sure your patch will handle this race. When we delete the session
> thread1
> created dynamic_node_acl is still set, so this:
>
> mutex_lock(&se_tpg->acl_node_mutex);
> if (se_nacl->dynamic_node_acl &&
> !se_tfo->tpg_check_demo_mode_cache(se_tpg)) {
> spin_lock_irqsave(&se_nacl->nacl_sess_lock, flags);
> if (list_empty(&se_nacl->acl_sess_list))
> se_nacl->dynamic_stop = true;
>
> can set dynamic_stop to true again and we can end up doing the extra put
> still.
>
> On top of the extra put we also do
>
> list_del(&se_nacl->acl_list);
>
> twice so we have to handle that as well.
>
> Is there also another bug in this code. If someone adds an acl while there is
> a
> dynamic acl in place core_tpg_add_initiator_node_acl will clear
> dynamic_node_acl
> but we leave the extra reference, so later when transport_free_session is
> called
> we will not do the extra put.
>
Ok, thanks for your answer. According the description above, i think it is a
false
positive now.
Thanks.
